The spanner smashes into the aluminium sheet which is being pushed away by a huge magnetic pulse.
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Briefcase Tesla Coil
Tesla coil in a briefcase. This is my latest easily portable mini coil which gives 2-3 inch sparks. These are great fun and are generally safe due to the low power.
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Tesla on a Car
Tesla on a Car, 2005
Now this was a long time ago. For a bit of silliness, I put the mini Tesla coil above on my car.
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My First Tesla Coil Discovery
My first TC was ‘discovered’ while running a spark spectroscopy project (above) in high school 40 years ago. This used about 10 kV from multivibrator excited dual ignition coils through 10 turns of an air cored radio coil to quench it. The other end of the 130 turn coil developed a corona visible in the dark spectroscopy room. It was a truly amazing sight.
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School Projects
Some of my school friendly projects are here like this simple high voltage ignition coil setup.
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Home Open Day 2008
I have held regular Home Open Days where I did demonstrations for people by invitation.
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